Word: sensuality
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Professor Kuno Francke Curator of the Germanic Museum, emphasized the value that such a Museum might be in helping the student to visualize his ideas of German art and "to adapt his sensual perception to the objects of his study." He spoke also of the power the Museum might become in helping to check narrow specialization, by bringing together "the art student and the philologist, the student of political as well as of literary history." Hon. Carl Schurz, President of the Germanic Museum Association spoke of the Museum as a instance of and help to international friendship between Germany...
...residence in Brussels he shot a friend in a quarrel. For two years he lived in prison, spending his time in introspective meditation. This led to his becoming a Roman Catholic, and to the writing of "Sagesse" in 1880. His existence was two fold, - either spent in debauchery and sensual crimes, or in meditation upon the delights of mystic religion. He was essentially a personal writer, and we can not know his works well until we know the man himself. His greatest service to French verse was in the music be added to French poetry. He was thoroughly artistic...
...their excessive desire for honor while in the world of the living. The third sphere is that of the planet Venus, the last to which the shadow of the earth reaches. Here are the souls of those whose perfect virtue has been injured by the mingling of divine and sensual love in their hearts. Thus Dante and Beatrice rise through the seven degrees of blessedness, and Dante talked with the joyful spirits, and increased in wisdom. Still led by the wonderful reflected light in the eyes of Beatrice, Dante ascends among the fixed stars. Here his eyes are cleared...
...Moxom conducted the Vesper Service Thursday Afternoon. His text, "Walk in the spirit," Dr. Moxom applied as urging the necessity of utilizing the powers of the sensual life for the fullest development of the moral nature...
...belief with ontology derived from Brahmanical schools. Buddha was no longer the man Gotama, but the eternal and self - existent. With this expansion of the Buddha came the corresponding expansion of his mission of deliverance, carried on through many Buddhas - to - be. Mystical Buddhism strove to reach conceptions beyond sensual pleasure. It was the aim of the manifestations of the Eternal to make men partakers of the Buddha - nature. The goal of the true believer of communion, might be realized on earth by help of scripture and holy places, or spiritually in any world from hell to heaven...